Wind Advisories Expanded Across Southern California and Southern Nevada Through Tuesday

Forecasters expect 40–50 mph gusts to create hazardous travel, blowing dust, occasional outages.

Overview

The National Weather Service in Las Vegas posted a Wind Advisory from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday for the Las Vegas Valley, parts of Clark and Nye counties, Arizona’s Northwest Plateau, and the Eastern Mojave Desert, with gusts up to 45 mph.
NWS Phoenix kept a Wind Advisory in effect for the southwest corner of Imperial County until 11 a.m. Tuesday, calling for southwest winds of 25 to 35 mph and gusts to 50 mph.
NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard maintained a Wind Advisory until 8 a.m. Tuesday for interior valleys and mountains of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties, including the Cuyama Valley and the Santa Lucia and Santa Ynez ranges, with gusts up to 50 mph.
Officials caution that driving will be difficult for high‑profile vehicles and that unsecured items may be blown around, with downed tree limbs and a few power outages possible.
Desert areas could experience blowing dust or sand that briefly slashes visibility to well under a mile, prompting calls for extra caution on roadways.